mind Quotes

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:beauty mind simplicity character

“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

topic:knowledge action mind judgement

“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

topic:reason mind

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

topic:death mind adventure

“In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:mind

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:mind

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:mind difference

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

topic:reality mind imagination

“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:education mind

“Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

topic:experience mind

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